📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Arche Tirol is part of an international community of people with and without cognitive disabilities, who live and work together based on the Arche communities international Charta. This Charta includes, that every person has an unique value.
Arche Tirol was founded in 1992 and is a christian-ecumenical community. In our daily routine there is place for spirituality. The work in Arche considers the UN convention for people with disabilities.
At the moment 10 people are living in two houses, one house is in Steinach and one is in St. Jodok am Brenner (few kilometers distance).
Arche welcomes people with disabilities at the age of 18. At the moment, four people with cognitive disabilities live in the Arche-house in Steinach and six live in St. Jodok. Our main philosophy is not only nursing, but also offering a community, personal relationship and a home.
In Steinach there is a workshop and a "basal group" ("Basale Gruppe") for the people with disabilities. They produce candles, potteries, paper and bags. We sell these products. The Assistants try to support the people with disabilities in their cognition and self awareness.
The main tasks are care/nursing, household and creating a familiar and welcoming atmosphere for the disabled people. In order to reach this goal, we share life and work, sing and celebrate together and try to organize joyful and exciting days for our residents. Household contains for example cooking, tidying up, doing the laundry and cleaning up. We offer the people with cognitive disabilities a comprehensive daily life. So we have many weekly leisure activities. Volunteers accompany them (dancing, swimming, hiking,...).
💼 What the programme involves
Arche Tirol is part of an international community of people with and without disabilities, who live and work together based on the principle that every person has a unique value. Our main philosophy is not only to provide care, but also to offer a community, personal relationships and a home. 10 people with a disability are accompanied in two houses in Steinach am Brenner and in St. Jodok. There is a workshop and a basal group, they produce candles, potteries, paper and bags. The main tasks are care/nursing, housekeeping and creating a familiar and welcoming atmosphere. We share life and work, sing, celebrate together and try to organise happy and exciting days for the residents. Household chores include cooking, tidying, laundry and cleaning. We have many weekly leisure activities (dancing, swimming, hiking...). The project expectedly lasts from 26.09.2022 until 11.08.2023 (dates may change).
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will live in the community in the small village St. Jodok, where she/he is offered an own room in the same house with staff members and the people with disabilities, but she/he will have their privacy. All common facilities can be used (kitchen, living areas, laundry room…). Innsbruck (capital of Tyrol) is 20-25 minutes away by train. The volunteer gets a ticket for public transport in the entire region of Tyrol. The border to Italy is just a few minutes away. The landscape is mountainous, with possibilities for activities in nature.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are happy to host a volunteer who: wants to get to know our organisation “Arche Tirol”, is interested in working with people with mental and multiple disabilities, has a stable personality, in order to be able to work with people with disabilities, can imagine to live in a community, is open-minded, friendly, enthusiastic, creative and communicative, wants to work in a team, is motivated to learn German, wants to gain social, intercultural, communication and nursing skills, brings her or his own culture and interests, is ready to volunteer for 10,5 months starting in September.
Deadline: Application deadline: 03/07/2022
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.